On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs > an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but > I am having some trouble with the initrd image. > > (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting > responses - and I need to finish this server by Friday. And the issue > right now is solely the initrd image.) > > The problem I am having is that the kernel is complaining about not > having the initrd image. I have SILO (sparc equiv of LILO) installed, > and have told it of the initrd image, but the kernel doesn't seem to > find it. (SILO reports all is well, so I can only assume it is finding > the initrd image without a problem.) > > My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package > to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. > How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image?
Try "genkernel menuconfig all" to check for a valid kernel config before genkernel builds it. Refer to genkernel's man-page for further options. > How can > I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify > it is a valid image? > There is a wiki-entry about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs Hope this helps.
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